FIN5 stories

During this week, the competitors, audience and those back home following the competition via Internet are being served by the FIN5 Internet editors. The men responsible for writing the stories and news are Tero Mamia and Tero Viljanen of Hämeenlinna suunnistajat, whereas the photos you are seeing on these pages are taken by Olli Ranta, Terhi Sillanpää-Reitti and Antti Örn. If you happen to come accross to an interesting story or a chance, email about it to tero.mamia(at)uta.fi. The latest stories can be found on the main page (here) and the older stories and news can be searched from the menu on the left.

Topi
Anjala took his place at the top of the results list on the middle
distance WC qualification today on FIN5. The women's race was won by
Karoliina Sundberg running for Lynx, although the favourite, Merja
Rantanen (KooVee), came close in the end losing by a narrow margin of 4
seconds.

The WOC qualification runners were lucky:
they had a day off on Monday, where as for other runners it was a
completely different story: rain all day long. Still, most runners had
happy faces after finishing their races on the slippery hillsides of
Kenkivuori – perhaps some of them were already thinking of the FIN5
dances later this evening?

Wednesday
was the third day on this year's FIN5. The competition centre was moved
to Renko, in the village of Asemi, and Hämeenlinnan Suunnistajat had
taken the control of the FIN5 from Hauhon Sisu. Mats Haldin and Anni-Maija Fincke were the best main classes.More>>

In
the sunny weather, Topi Anjala (H21E) and Merja Rantanen (D21E) were
the fastest on the long distance WC qualification today. Petteri
Muukkonen lost only 38 seconds to Topi, while Merja won by almost a
2-minute margin before Karoliina Sundberg.